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2. the Repertory Catalogue of books in languages of small peoples of the
North, Siberia and the Russian Far East with 3,525 titles in 25 languages
of the minorities of the North compiled in collaboration with the
Russian National Library. Those databases have provided the basis for
the Reference List publication and the Catalogue of Yukaghir books;
3. full-text databases of the literature of indigenous peoples of the
Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) such as the Dolganika, Chukotika,
Evenkinika, Evenika and Yukaghirika databases;
4. full-text database of the national and regional legislation on small
peoples of the North.
Currently, the library website (http://nlib.sakha.ru) provides full access to
library refbase in Russian and Yakut, as well as foreign and the North minority
languages. The total of the available references is about half a million. There is
also the Repertory Catalogue of the libraries in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
and a consolidated database of articles of the Sakha Sire containing references
to publications from periodicals, serials and collections, including newspapers
of small peoples of the North, since 1991. The Knigakan: Documented Memory
of the Peoples of the North project sponsored by the Ministry of Culture
and Intellectual Development of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the
Department of Peoples and Federal Relations is an important stage in the efforts
of the National Library to preserve the documented heritage of small peoples of
the North. To date, 32.6% of the archives in the languages of small peoples of the
North have been digitized, which has helped compile the Knigakan e-collection
as a part of the e-library of the National Library. The Sakha e-library has been
visited by 2,500 people since this August. 340 documents have been browsed
over with 175 of them from the Knigakan collection. Now we can say that our
e-library is visited not only by Russians but also users from the US, Korea and
Germany. We have also registered requests for books in the Even, Yukaghir,
Evenki and other languages.
However, it should be noted that collecting and preserving documented heritage
of small peoples of the Russian North as well as making it available to public
is yet another challenge. Indeed, the identified collection in the languages of
the small peoples of the Russian North contains 1,900 titles, with 63% of them
being in our possession and the other 37% kept by various Russian regions.
Today, 40 small peoples of the North, with a total population of 244,000, reside
in their communities in twenty eight Russian entities. For instance, Evenkis
inhabit 11 Russian regions, Evens and Chukchis reside in six and three regions
accordingly. In this context, a round-table held in the National Library of
the republic during a field session of the Federation Council Committee on
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